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Former journalist (thanks, layoffs). Survived Stage 4 melanoma with help from science and medicine (thanks, Jim Allison). Learning guitar, watching birds, petting all the cats, petting all the dogs.
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Nazi shit happens at CPAC every single year now. It's undeniable what that hive is. Anyone denying this shit still has their head so far up their own ass that they should never be taken seriously for any reason on any topic ever again because they're delusional.

NEW from Jennifer Schulze: Democrats should fight back with an aggressive, fact-based counternarrative every single day heartlandsignal.com/2025/02/17/o...

It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

Protest is not about "sending a message." It is about creating a crisis that those in power cannot ignore. Every successful movement follows three essential principles: 1. Clear, Non-Negotiable Demands 2. Escalating Pressure 3. Noncooperation: Stop Enabling the System Please share

350 Rabis took full page ad against Mango Mussolini

I repeat, if you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. We have a plan and may be able to help you.

President Trump says he wants to make IVF more accessible, but his administration’s other actions are putting reproductive freedom at risk.

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

Memo to Democrats: If EVERY ONE of you would do what Janet Mills did yesterday EVERY TIME, Trump would unravel entirely. He relies on you being bullied. Refuse to be.

I chatted with a program director at NIH for a half hour just now It's clear that the people who make American science happen are doing everything they can to keep making it happen in a very difficult environment They deserve our respect and gratitude

WATCH: “When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?” WISCONSIN Republicans Grothman & Fitzgerald run into tough town hall crowds also 👇🏽👀

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

More CFPB news: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employees have been told that the bureau's Washington HQ lease is cancelled and the agency has 30 days to vacate the building www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Donald Trump has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other military leaders. It’s another major domino in our national collapse and it requires a direct response. Here is the plan from now until the State of the Union.

Fuck this shit.

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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My great Uncle Frankie didn’t liberate Dachau for this piece of shit sell us out like this.

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

If you have a Republican representative — you have a right to know if they’re a Nazi. #fucknazis #3E #ResistFascism

#minnesota tell your friends in roseville it is time to vote

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REPORTER: Germany has elections on Sunday. What are you thoughts? TRUMP: Who has elections? REPORTER: Germany. TRUMP: Oh, Germany. I wish them luck. We got our own problems.

Farmers express concerns about chaos from Trump tariffs and budget cuts; GOP electeds fail to show up via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

“You can fool some people sometimes But you can’t fool all the people all the time So now we see the light We gotta stand up for our right” #songsofresistance

Note that the owners are not named Mr. & Ms. White Also notice they're not going after the big, white-owned ranches, farms & meat packing plants that employ hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers. They went after 2 small Mexican American owners. www.rawstory.com/ice-arrest/

HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism. wapo.st/3X8d75G

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared *his own constituents* who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

There's a certain former Republican US Senator who lost his job because his constituents demanded he host a town hall meeting to explain why he was serving Trump instead of the state that elected him and that state *hasn't elected a Republican to a statewide office since*

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

If you haven't yet, make an account with Social Security dot gov. See how much you've paid into SS over your lifetime. It's YOUR money that you've loaned to the government until your retirement. It's not a fucking "entitlement" beyond the fact that only YOU are entitled to it. Elon Musk is not.

WATCH: “What are you going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House?” An @reprichmccormick town hall in a red GEORGIA district erupts in cheers - then boos loudly as he tries to invoke Biden and both-sides Trump’s actions. Full video: www.instagram.com/reel/DGUf45s...

Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

Over on that hellsite, Elon musk is censoring tweets on this Republican town hall where voters got very ticked off about doge and more.

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.